While it is unclear what Miller was referencing, her message hearkens back to 1986, on the first federal holiday marking the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., when disc jockey Doug Tracht said on the air that killing “four more” would result in getting the rest of the week off.

Students traveling by public transit must walk more than half a mile to reach campus, with a quarter of all Virginia campuses located more than four and a half miles from the closest stop. 

Investing in public higher education and reducing the cost of getting a degree will help close the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts, the Ashland Democrat said, and build a more educated workforce to fill jobs in the state's innovation, health care and scientific industries.